Social Darwinism and How it Justify the Wealth and Power of People During the Gilded Age

Social Darwinism in the Gilded Age
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Social Darwinism in the Gilded Age
Charles Darwin, an English biologist, is well remembered for his massive contribution to the theory of evolution, a concept that has been widely adopted to explain the origin of species on the planet. From a historical and social perspective, the knowledge of Charles Darwin has been applied in what can be termed as social Darwinism to refer to a phenomenon where the human species are subject to the idea of natural selection as Darwin claims about all the other species. This implies that the existence in the society is a result of the struggle for existence, where the strongest tend to emerge victoriously and grow in supremacy. The gilded age is a phrase used to refer to the period during the late 19th century in the United States when industrialization was at an all-time high and the country experienced immense economic deve...